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Who is eligible?

Research teams in Planetary Science or neighbouring fields. Primarily support will be given to EU teams but collaboration with teams external to the EU will be considered by the VESPA management team. VESPA beneficiaries will implement services through other means.

What do I gain?

Visibility for your published work/observations.

Satisfaction of providing the community with high quality reference data.

A prompt answer to daily mails asking for your data!

If you already have a database, VESPA will provide high level search functions on its contents, on-line visu / analysis capacities, and cross-correlation with other datasets in neighbouring fields, with minimum efforts. Your data will be searchable from the VESPA interface.

What is the outcome?

At the end of the process, you will have a TAP server installed in your institute, with one data service connected to the Planetary Science Virtual Observatory and the know-how to implement additional services and to share more data. A single server can accommodate many services in Planetary Science, Heliophysics, and Astronomy.

Which data?

Derived / highly processed data are preferred, because their content can be of interest to other communities.

What type of data access / data status?

Data will be publicly open/accessible - you are responsible for checking the legal status of the data you wish to provide, and accept to share them publicly.

Which support?

VESPA provides support to design and install a data service through a preliminary telecon, workshop, and a post-workshop helpdesk. A finalization review will be performed with the proposer.

What do VESPA pay for?

We pay for a trip to the workshop venue, economy class + local expenses (for 2 persons per team).

What skills does this require?

You need a science expert of the field and a software engineer - at least someone not reluctant to editing SQL routine templates and installing applications. The installation process has been optimized to remain as light as possible.

Where will the data be located?

Data services are installed in the proposing institutes, which have to set up and maintain a server and a database. Services may link to data stored in external repositories - European data repositories are available for this purpose (e.g., Zenodo). In case the service links to data existing in a Planetary Science repository already providing a service to the community (such as ESA's PSA), the added value must be clearly demonstrated.